This Giddy Globe

audiobook

This Giddy Globe

by Oliver Herford

EN·~1 hours·55 chapters

Chapters

55 total
1

THIS - GIDDY GLOBE - BY - PETER SIMPLE, F.T.G. - FELLOW OF THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE

0:05
2

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

0:11
3

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

0:02
4

TO - PRESIDENT WILSON - [With all his faults he quotes me still.]

0:04
5

PREFACE

0:19
6

THIS GIDDY GLOBE

0:01
7

PART I - WHY IS THE GLOBE? - CHAPTER I

2:45
8

PREFACE - STRICTLY PRIVATE

0:29
9

CHAPTER II

1:35
10

CHAPTER III

1:27

Description

A delightfully absurd tour of a world that has just been invented, this audio brings a mischievous narrator’s musings on creation, geography, and the impossible expectations of a picky critic. The speaker playfully riffs on biblical six‑day creation, swapping sky blues for turquoise greens, and imagines a critic crawling out of a nebular cargo to punt at every flaw. Along the way, you’ll meet witty footnotes about suffrage, a secret private preface, and a cast of imagined geographers ranging from Moses to modern scholars.

The prose is a blend of lyrical parody and witty essay, punctuated by whimsical poetry and oddball illustrations that keep the ear tuned to the absurd. Listeners will feel like they’re sitting in a salon where the author confesses a habit of digression, inviting you to gently steer the conversation back whenever it wanders. All the while, the globe itself remains a living, shifting joke, promising endless amusement without ever revealing its ultimate shape.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~1 hours (60K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2008-07-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford

1863–1935

Known for witty poems, playful drawings, and a light touch with satire, this Anglo-American writer delighted both children and adults. His work moved easily between nonsense verse, illustration, and literary humor, making him a distinctive voice of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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